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Derailed NFL hopeful gets new chance at football life

Brian Banks was an NFL hopeful several years back, but his career was derailed by a wrongful criminal conviction. On Saturday, his long search for vindication turned an important corner. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans spoke with him.

"I am honored to say I've taken an amazing position with the front office of the NFL," Banks wrote on his Facebook page. He'll be a manager in the football operations department. He says it's just now sinking in.

It's an opportunity of a lifetime, it's something that at one point in my life, I would have never [thought] of happening.Banks had been accused by a high school classmate of a rape that never happened. He was just 16, a star linebacker at Long Beach Poly High, with a full-ride scholarship waiting for him at USC and a dream to play in the NFL.

"All I had to do was play my senior year," he said. "The biggest year of my life."

But it never happened. He spent five years in prison and another four on probation before his alleged victim admitted she made it all up.